The C. elegans Male Exercises Directional Control during Mating through Cholinergic Regulation of Sex-Shared Command Interneurons

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Sherlekar, Amrita L ^a   Janssen, Abbey ^a   Siehr, Meagan S ^a   Koo, Pamela K ^a   Caflisch, Laura ^a   Boggess, May ^b   Lints, Robyn ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ACR 16 GENE; ACR 18 GENE; ARTICLE; BACKWARD MOVEMENT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CHR2 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; INTERNEURON; LITE 1 GENE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATING; MOTONEURON; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNC 29 GENE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHOLINE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; INTERNEURONS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; OPTOGENETICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; POTATO VIRUS X; POTATO VIRUS Y;

EID: 84875923161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060597     Document Type: Article

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